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The Leonard Lopate Show

Monday, May 10, 2004
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  • NPR's Bob Edwards (Cable Risdon)

    It's Nineteen Minutes After the Hour

    When NPR announced its plans to reassign Bob Edwards, longtime host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition, it elicited a widespread response from listeners, many in protest. He talks about his reassignment and his latest project, a new book on the life of Edward R. Murrow. Marc Cooper on the lure of Sin City and his book The Last Honest Place in America. Andrew Wilson discusses the life of Patricia Highsmith. Director Mark St. Germain, who wrote and directed the new play, "Ears on a Beatle," about the FBI and John Lennon, is joined by lawyer Leon Wildes, who represented Lennon.

Bob Edwards

When NPR announced its plans to reassign Bob Edwards, longtime host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition, it elicited a widespread response from listeners, many in protest. He talks about his reassignment and his latest project, a new book on the life of Edward R. Murrow entitled Edward R murrow and the birth of broadcast journalism.

Events: Bob Edwards will be appearing Monday, May 10 at 6pm Museum of Television and Radio, 25 West 52nd St. He will be speaking, reading and book signing Limited Tickets $15 $7 for students 212-621-6600

Music: Cobb Soundtrack composer Elliot Goldenthal

Marc Cooper

Marc Cooper on the lure of Sin City. His book is The Last Honest Place in America: In Search of Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas.

Music: The Grifters Sountrack composer Elmer Bernstein

Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson on the life of Patricia Highsmith, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith.

Music: Strangers on a Train Soundtrack composer Dimitri Tiomkin

Mark St. Germain and Leon Wildes

Director Mark St. Germain, who wrote and directed the new play, "Ears on a Beatle," about the FBI and John Lennon, is joined by lawyer Leon Wildes, who represented Lennon.

Music: John Lennon "Imagine"

Tom Daschle on Fixing America’s Health Care System

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Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle has accepted President-Elect Barack Obama’s offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear Tom Daschle talk about his prescriptions for fixing American’s health care crisis on the Leonard Lopate Show in March 2008.

Rahm Emanuel

Big Plans for America

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Democratic Congressman Rahm Emanuel from Illinois has agreed to be Chief of Staff under President-Elect Barack Obama. You can hear him on the Lopate Show in 2006 discussing his thoughts on what the Democratic party needed to do in order to succeed.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama, Circa 2004

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As the Democratic Convention is underway in Denver, listen to Barack Obama on the Leonard Lopate Show in November 2004. He had recently won a seat in the U.S. Senate, and only a few months before, his rousing speech during the 2004 Democratic National Convention catapulted him into the national spotlight.

Joe Biden

Sen. Joe Biden on the Lopate Show

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Sen. Obama has chosen Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware to be his running mate. To find out more about his personal and political life, listen to Leonard’s Aug. 2007 interview with Sen. Biden. At the time, the Senator from Delaware was still a contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Guest Picks

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Find out surprising facts about some recent guests on the Leonard Lopate Show. Check out our Guest Picks section! Did you know that football star Herschel Walker loves Judge Judy, Laurie Anderson is a big fan of agility training for dogs, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi likes Johnny Depp?

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